Dockside
I turned unused space around the macOS Dock into a workspace
Details
- External ID
- 48777962
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Dockside
- Website domain
- hachipoo.com
- Launched
- July 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1081242532855436
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- —
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- macos dock workspace extension
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a native macOS shelf utility managing window frames, pasteboard events, and drag-and-drop file staging, all of which are standard AppKit and SwiftUI capabilities easily built with AI assistance.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Space Drop, Dropzone, Spotlight, Cmd+Tab
Concerns raised: Dock takes up unnecessary screen space
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 390 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #360 of 391 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 239 days after the earliest competitor.
- Reader · hn · 2026-09-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- DockForge · github · 2026-09-23 · 223 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- docklayout · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- GhostVM · hn · 2026-03-16 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- boringBar · hn · 2026-04-12 · 520 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- dockerlabs · github · 2026-09-17 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- A terminal glued to the macOS dock · hn · 2026-08-06 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- DockAlly · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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